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  • Camp Library at Camp Dix, New Jersey
    Image | 1918 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsExterior of a camp library building. Additional caption reads: The A.L.A. is still maintaining libraries in army, navy and marine corps camps and hospitals. Libraries have been placed on 1,509 naval and merchant marine vessels. More than 2,500,000 books were sent overseas. The men in the hospitals are still looking for your magazines. As soon as you have read them, place a s...